| Título | Francisco Ximénez and the Popol Vuh: Text, Structure, and Ideology in the Prologue to the Second Treatise |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2002 |
| Authors | Quiroa, N |
| Journal | Colonial Latin American Historical Review |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pagination | 279–300 |
The Order of Preachers (also known as the Dominican Order, and whose members are commonly called Dominicans or dominicos) is a Catholic religious order founded by Santo Domingo de Guzmán during the Albigensian Crusade and approved by Pope Honorius III in 1216. The order's charism, or main focus, historically centers around intellectual and educational activity in support of orthodox Catholic teaching.
In his larger corpus of missionary writing, Ximénez refers to the Holy Spirit as "el espíritu Sto.," "el espíritu de Díos" or "la tercera persona de la Santísima Trinidad." The Holy Spirit is characterized as the creative force of God in the biblical text of Genesis, which Ximénez compares to the creation account that begins the Popol Wuj. The complex relationship between Ximénez's Dominican theology and his writing on and from Mesoamerica is the subject of intense scholarly debate (see for instance Quiroa 2002, 2011, and 2017).
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